LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Let's give them something to talk about

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Jul 27, 2017 at 5:16 PMJul 27, 2017 at 5:16 PM

The singer, Bonnie Raitt, came out with a big hit titled: "Let's give them something to talk about", back in the early nineties. Let's face it, the Democrats in the U.S. will always be "tax and spend" Democrats, and the only people the Republicans represent are the wealthy, the military and bigots. So, there is a constant reminder of the competition between the two. What bothers me is that that reminder is taking up far too much of my time here on Earth. It seems, sometimes, that the only benefit to staying informed is to provide conversive "silage". Henry David Thoreau once pointed out that if you isolate yourself from "the news" for an extended period of time, and then come back to it, nothing seems to have changed. The attention-getting " Washington outsider" , Mr. Trump, has really provided a great deal of fodder for conversation. The modern day University of Toronto professor Marshall McLuhan once coined the phrase: "the media is the message". Outside of the wealthy or "being exceptional" it seems that for the rest of us, "this is what we get"...